I just ask myself this question since a short time.... is making music which wants to make you dance and move your body the biggest challange? for me it is, I find it way more easy to make "normal" music, beautiful cinematic music, sad music with temping chords and melodies or so called ID...

I hate the fact that you have to take it to the arrangement page to do this. I always end up dragging it back into the clip bit. or use a cpu light fast loading wave editor and the edit button in ableton, it's very well integrated that way. It doesn't feel like changing the program at all. I use wa...

this is still a topic I love to know more about and I'm still not satisfied with my sidechaining with the ableton compressor, the release just don't work for me. the sonalksis seems to work ok (can't test it anymore since my demo is over), so does cubase compressor, but I just can't afford the sonal...

below 1000 € it's the 8040 for me, focal was also nice, a bit more natural mids but less 3d.

I tested all big names. for me it's the akg 272/271

I agree that the hd 25 is coloured

wow, absolutely new thing with reverb on kicks to make a bass! will try it. I never thought about this since reverb bad in most situations mixing wise at the low end. beside of the reverb thing... I already like to use kicks with a long volume attack envelope (to get rid of the klick) since some time.

I often noticed that people which care the least about equipment make the best music. This is no rule, but there is some truth in it. I suffer from this too, I don't think I make good music.

As I see it there are different point of views...to be honest, I'm an old shcool dj, records, normal analog mixer without effex, I just play with the Eq...I hate fx on dj sets, I think fxs are here to make the dj feel he is actually creating something new, and that he is "part of the track&quo...